When I choose this issue for my project, I was in no way taking the easy way out. Although this issue is extremely important to me it has been hard to stay unbiased and present all the information that needs to be presented. However if I could go back to the day we choose our issues, I would not have picked any other one. I have truly enjoyed this topic and have learned so much more about the evolution/creation debate; my view of the issue has definitely been broaden.While looking back at my posts and after my conference I have come to learn that I was leaving something out. In my posts I have seemed to imply that believing in God and believing in the evolutionary theory are mutually exclusive. Mutually exclusive means that two events have no outcomes in common. So I have implied that if one believes in the evolutionary theory then one can not believe in God. However this is not the case. I know this is not the case because my Biology teacher in high school was an evolutionists that believed in God. As I researched most of the sites that I came upon questioned the existence of God. There are some evolutionists that do believe in God, but not many. I found a study that proved this point. The study was conducted where the participants were professional evolutionary scientists (for more detail on the study click here or here). I found part b of the picture above to be quite interesting where approximately 80% said that they do not believe in God. The rest of the twenty percent are divided between a belief in a personal God (theists), belief in God as a deist, or no belief in God but they leave room for mystery. Being a deist means that one does believe in God and that God did play a role in the beginning of life, but He no longer is involved in the world. They do not believe in a personal relationship with God. (Read the blog "Imagine...A Complex Creation" if you are interested in seeing why there is more to God then what deist believe.) So in way I focused on the 80% of evolutionists that do not believe in God. However, I should have included the fact that some evolutionists do believe in God and so I am adding that now.
Through this project I have became even more aware that there are so many people that remain uneducated about the issues of evolution and creation. I had one commenter who said that they believe the universe has always existed and may always exist. There are many sites that disprove his assumption and that show why the universe has a beginning point. The universe does have a beginning and it has not always been as this one commenter assumed rather blindly. (Click here, here, or here for the evidence). In fact, the point that the our universe does have a beginning is agreed upon by both evolutionists and creationists as I stated in one of my first posts. This point proves that there is a need for more education on both of these issues. Before this post I just accepted the fact that only evolution was taught in public schools. But through this project I have seen more and more that both sides need to be taught, so that everyone can make their own opinions about the issue-not just blind opinions. I feel that it is extremely important for people to know why they believe something and it is even more important for them to be able to back it up. I think our schools should accept other theories into the curriculum so students have the choice...we are a free country aren't we?
I have grown in so many other ways as well. Beginning off I thought I could present a lot of the facts of evolution and creation however I have not even began to skim the top of those theories. The more research I did the more complex I found both of the issues to be. If one is talking about Creation, then one needs to talk about the existence of God. If one is talking about the existence of God then one should talk about the validity of the Bible. So both of these issues of Creation and Evolution are intertwined with so many other issues that it is impossible to write everything that needs to be said in such a short blog. I seemed to think before this project that both issues were a whole lot more simple than they actually are. This issue has always been important to me since I learned of evolution in school but I had never taken the time to really research it myself. So this project has helped me grow in my view of creation and evolution. I have truly enjoyed this assignment.
